Neuro News Nanos

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Here are this morning’s:

* The sex transformation delusion — a female patient who had the experience of changing sex when she had a seizure — she also experienced other females in the vicinity as also transforming into males

* Ten years of happiness — positive psychology at a decade — “maintains a core of rigorous empirical science but it is clear from the article that there is considerable tension between those who simply want to investigate the building blocks of the good living and those who want to extend (and sometimes over-extend) the work into life guidance”

* To catch a thief — showing witnesses suspects photos one at a time, instead of six at a time — can lower misidentification rates by 39%, according to AP

* The awesomeness of crowds? — people in crowds often behave in remarkably cooperative and selfless ways — 21 survivors of mass emergencies

* Stimulus money to study college hookups — the National Institutes of Health awarded $219,000 of stimulus dollars to researcher Michael Carey, who will study the “hook-up” patterns of 500 female freshmen at Syracuse University — Republicans outraged, aroused